Description

There is a growing need to understand the role of the regulation of intellectual property rights (IPRs), in order not only to achieve economic performance, growth and sustainable development at corporate, sectoral and global levels, but also to provide a higher quality of life for communities worldwide.
Intellectual Property Rights is cutting edge in addressing current debates affecting businesses, industry sectors and society today, and in focusing not only on the enabling welfare effects of IPR systems, but also on some of the possible adverse effects of IPR systems. The main areas covered in the book are:
* the global commons in an era of corporate dominance and privatisation of the public domain, including science, culture, and healthcare under TRIPS
* the rationales for IPRs, and the importance of an appropriate design of an IPR regime in achieving its objectives
* opening the black box of IPR offices and critically reviewing how they affect economic performance in both theory and practice
* coordinating the institutions (state versus sector institutions, knowledge networks, innovation systems) creating and extracting financial and non-financial value from patents and copyrights.
This book challenges the existing mainstream thinking and analytical frameworks dominating the theoretical literature on IPRs within economics, management, politics, law and regulation theory. It is relevant for policymakers, business analysts, industrial and business economists, researchers and students.

About Author

Edited by Birgitte Andersen, Professor of the Economics and Management of Innovation, School of Business, Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Contents

Contents: Introduction Birgitte Andersen PART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL COMMONS 1. The Market Economy and the Scientific Commons Richard R. Nelson 2. Public Interest and the Public Domain in an Era of Corporate Dominance Fiona Macmillan 3. AIDS, TRIPS and `TRIPS Plus'. The Case for Developing and Less Developed Countries Fabienne Orsi, Mamadou Camara and Benjamin Coriat PART II: THE RATIONALES FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REVISITED 4. If `Intellectual Property Rights' is the Answer, What is the Question? Revisiting the Patent Controversies Birgitte Andersen 5. Why do Small High-Tech Firms Take Out Patents, and Why Not? Lee N. Davis PART III: THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PATENTING PROCESS 6. Knowledge Spillovers from the Patenting Process Jesper Lindgaard Christensen 7. The Determinants of Patentees' Use of `Continuation' Patent Applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1980-99 Stuart J.H. Graham PART IV: COORDINATING INSTITUTIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS GOVERNANCE 8. Public and Private Institutions in the Governance of Intellectual Property Rights Eric Brousseau and Christian Bessy 9. The Exploration of Knowledge Networks through Patent Citations Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi and Franco Malerba 10. Intellectual Property Rights for Governance in and of Innovation Systems Ove Granstrand Index